Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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